Pomegranate Cocktails

POM Wonderful Collaboration- Pomegranate Cocktails.

Guest feature by Sarah James:

I was set a challenge to make some cocktails using POM, and enjoy some delicious pistachio nuts at the same time. I hesitated for a nano second…

I had heard about pomegranates being a new ‘superfood’ and have used pomegranate molasses in cooking Persian dishes, and the actual fruit from time-to-time in salads – although it always seems a lot of effort to get to the good bit. So a juice seems the perfect way to get the goodness without all the effort.

We set to and came up with 3 cocktails. Whilst we were making them, we open the Wonderful Pistachios in sweet chilli flavour, which were delicious.

So channelling our inner Tom Cruise/Brian Brown’s we set to. Our first cocktail was the “POM Royale”. This was a twist on a classic and we used about 50/50 ratio of POM to Champagne.

Our second cocktail was a “POM Margarita”;

made as follows:

Lime wedge, plus more for garnish

Salt (I used Maldon, try not to use ‘table salt’)

Ice

125ml tequila

60ml Triple Sec

120ml pomegranate juice

1 lime, juiced (optional)

How to make POM Margarita

1) Pour the salt onto a plate or shallow dish. With a lime wedge, rub the rim of each glass. Dip the glasses upside down into the salt, to salt the rims. Fill the glasses with ice.

2) In a cocktail shaker with ice, place the tequila, triple sec, pomegranate juice and lime juice. Pour the liquid into the salt-rimmed glasses.

At the risk of sounding very alcoholic, I think we added too much soda – I would have preferred it stronger!

It was fun to be given the chance to get creative with the cocktail shaker, and I feel inspired to try some more next weekend. There is a version of POM which also contains apple, and I’m thinking that this would be very good with Bison Grass vodka, or a citrus flavoured vodka.

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